Oh thanks, but she died a few years ago by now, September 2006. I have another now. Point is, I guess, that if we forget the rituals around mortality, or maybe anything else, there is an inner price we pay. It's a bit of soul death.
K
On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:07 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'golden eyes glowing dull and open'. Haunting stuff, KW. Sorry for your feline loss.
>
> BW
>
> On 25/10/2012, at 8:54 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
>> MY MOST GRIEVOUS FAULT
>> (Pushkin, cat, white and orange, 1992-September 2006)
>>
>> Only later did I realize I'd failed
>> to shut her eyes, and now
>> I'd be pursued by her Fury
>> (appropriate to her), yowling
>> "You forgot me but you won't
>> make that mistake again!"
>>
>> In the presence of Death
>> I wanted only to flee, leave her
>> prone on a metal table,
>> robbed of all sense--except she knew
>> I believe in spirits of the Faithful Departed
>> just as she did and does
>>
>> believe in her companion Miles,
>> four years dead, the cat she still sees
>> not in Elysium or Heaven
>> but in her fierce memory,
>> in dreams forgiving slights
>> even as they live on in her
>>
>> to hand now to me to recall her
>> golden eyes glowing dull and open
>> in a fluorescent room,
>> no more to say except
>> she will not let me rest
>> nor would I wish to.
>>
>> KW
>>
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